I finalay managed to get my Borla Cat back installed. The old pipe gave me TONS of problems gettign off. I tried to use a hack saw, but with a dull blade, it was no go. I finlay maged to twis it enough so that it broke off. I was concerned with the rear of the drive shaft being so closed, but after a drive I did not hear it hiting anything.

It has a nice low rumble and its not raspy at all.

 

Good to hear, I'll be putting my Borla on next weekend.

 

Cool, I like the Borla sound on a stockish LT1 too. Just make sure you keep cats on because it will get very raspy if you don't. I don't like it with a lopey cam either.

Mike

2002 M6 Z28

 

Ive heard them before. They sound awesome!
Too bad my exhaust is all custom...

 

Yeah I'm keeping the cat on. Even if there is a chance that a high flow cat could give me like 5 HP, the extra sound will not be worth it.

I made the mistake of taking of the cat on my RX-7 (sounds not comparable), and the extra sound and shrpaer tone was not worth it. Dotn want to take a chance with this one. I also noticed that the previous owner that installed the Edelbrock TES, had the cat welded to the Y-Pipe.

 

Any body know how the borla muffler sounds by itslef. I always see them on ebay and the price difference must mean it sounds no where near as sweet as the cat back borla with the wide open plate.

 

i had the closed plate on mine when i got it installed and it sounded nice, a bit quiet though but i liked it until i took the plates out and whoa it sounded a LOT better. havnt had the plates in since. i did notice the low rpm power was there with the plate on and not so much with it off, but theres much more high rpm power with it off.

 

anyone have any sound clips on a stockish lt1? I just put a magnaflow muffler on back about 2 months ago..its not bad..i love the sound when im gettin on it but its weak at idle

 

Step #1: Install Borla Finished
Step #2: Throw out all plates, run it wide open, and pretend it never came with any. Pending

Looks to me like you still have step 2 to complete.

 

LOL I'm probably goan start messing with it, but first I want to figure out how the hell to record sound clips wiht out static all over them.

That way I'll host a few clips of how it sounds. POS sound recorder tool. Its weird cus when I tested it first, it was clear, now it gets all static.